A study published in Nature provides insight into how the brain processes sensory information from the internal organs. Researchers at Harvard Medical School used high-resolution imaging to identify ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

All individuals have preferences for certain sensory stimuli and process their sensory environments in individualized ways. Traditionally, understanding sensory processing differences has been a ...

Sensory processes, perception and performance constitute a multifaceted domain that bridges the sensory encoding of environmental stimuli, the perceptual interpretations formed by the brain, and the ...

A sensory process such as pain is no ordinary phenomenon—it’s a symphony of neural and vascular interactions orchestrated by the brain and spinal cord. Attempting to dissect this symphony by focusing ...

In Stage 1, the processes include phenomena such as inter- sensory processing and “top-down processing” (also called “knowledge-based processing”). These are phenomena that determine what we ...

Sensory processing differences refer to atypical ways in which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory inputs such as sound, touch, light, movement ...

A new children’s gym designed to serve kids with autism and other special needs is opening in the Cedar Rapids area this weekend.We Rock the Spectrum Kid’s Gym, ...

This study evaluates a new fecal microbiota transplant method, revealing significant symptom improvements in children with autism without invasive procedures.